Deirdre Fleming – Page 121 – The Portland Press Herald

Staff Writer

Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.

Outdoors, Sports

Flourishing festivals, with room to grow

by Deirdre Fleming April 8, 2012

Maine is up to five spring birding festivals, with so much to offer in the state that growth will prove inevitable.

Outdoors, Sports

It’s spring, and fishing is hot

by Deirdre Fleming April 8, 2012

Spring fishing in Maine is as much as two weeks to a month ahead of schedule, depending on where you’re wetting a line. And fishermen just about everywhere are taking advantage, say fisheries biologists statewide. This is our first installment of our open-water fishing report, which runs April to October in Outdoors. Every other week, […]